Politics
Hardik Patel does ‘puja’ ahead of joining BJP today
Former Congress leader Hardik Patel is set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday, days after exiting the Grand Old party. The Patidar leader performed a ‘pooja’ at his Ahmedabad residence on Thursday morning ahead of formally joining the party. After months of back and forth over infighting...
Rahul Gandhi seeks more time to appear before ED
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has written to the Enforcement Directorate seeking more time from the agency to appear before it in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper. Officials told News18 that the agency received an e-mail from Gandhi late on Wednesday saying he is currently...
BJP announces 22 candidates for RS, to support 2 independents
The last-minute entry of two media barons enjoying the BJP’s support has created hurdles for the Congress to get all its candidates elected to the Rajya Sabha while at the same time, the ruling party has kept caste equations in mind in distributing its tickets for the polls to...
Row over Assam decision to issue minority certificates
A row has emerged a day after the BJP-led Assam government decided to issue minority certificates to Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsis with the AIUDF and the Congress being the main opposition to it. Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his cabinet had decided to issue these...
Popular Front leader arrested for remark against judges
A Kerala court on Monday sent PFI state committee member Yahya Thangal to 14 days judicial custody a day after he was arrested in connection with provocative sloganeering by a minor boy during a recent march organised by the outfit in Alappuzha district. Meanwhile, a petition was filed...
Today’s by-election to decide Uttarakhand CM’s fate
Polling for by-election to the Champawat assembly seat in Uttarakhand began on Tuesday morning. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, who lost from Khatima in the state assembly polls held in February, is trying his luck from Champawat to become an MLA – a constitutional requirement he needs to fulfil...
Hardik Patel denies speculation about joining BJP
Former Congress leader Hardik Patel denied speculation that he will join the BJP on Monday, and took to Twitter to attack the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the killing of popular Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. “I am not joining BJP tomorrow…will let you know if something like this happens,”...
Chidambaram, Ramesh, Maken, Surjewala on Cong RS list
The Congress on Sunday announced 10 candidates for the June 10 Rajya Sabha polls, fielding former Union ministers P Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken as well as party’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala. Chidambaram was fielded from Tamil Nadu, Ramesh from Karnataka, Maken from Haryana and Surjewala from Rajasthan....
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind resolution on Gyanvapi, Mathura cases
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind chief Maulana Mahmood Madani Sunday said those who ask Muslims to leave the country should leave themselves. According to a statement issued by the organisation, Madani objected to the plans of some states to implement Uniform Civil Code. “People of the community need not fear this, he...
PK identifies bane of Bihar politics as power with families
Former election strategist Prashant Kishor on Sunday asserted that a state of “inertia” has scourged politics in Bihar, his home state, where positions of power have remained concentrated among just 1200-1300 families in the last three decades. The celebrated data analyst made the claim at a press conference here,...
Owaisi says India belongs to Dravidians and Adivasis
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday took a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for going “only after Mughals”. Addressing a rally in Maharashtra’s Bhiwandi, Owaisi said, “India is neither mine, nor Thackeray’s, nor Modi-Shah’s. If India belongs...
BJP hunts for new faces for Chhattisgarh unit
Amid the infighting and factionalism, the BJP central leadership has in a strong message to its Chhattisgarh unit asked it to put its house in order before next year’s assembly polls. The party is exploring the possibility of new leadership in Chhattisgarh before the assembly polls. The BJP ruled...
MP Cong accuses BJP of ‘grave injustice’ to OBCs
A day after the Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission (SEC) announced the schedule of three-tier panchayat polls, the Opposition Congress accused the BJP-led state government of doing “grave injustice” to the other backward classes (OBCs). It claimed that the government has given only a 9-13 per cent quota to...
Regional parties report Rs 250cr electoral bond donations
Five regional parties have declared they received donations amounting to Rs 250.60 crore through electoral bonds in 2020-21, according to poll rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). According to ADR’s latest report, the total income of 31 regional parties for the 2020-21 financial year was Rs 529.416 crore,...
BJP wants AAP stopped from becoming main opposition party
Concerned with the expansion plan of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has directed state units to plan strategies to stop it from becoming principal opposition parties there by replacing Congress. After its thumping victory in Punjab assembly polls, the AAP has now shifted its focus...
Mann govt trains guns on ‘corrupt’ ex-ministers
In what could raise political temperatures in Punjab, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday asked former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh to make public names of former ministers involved in “corrupt” practices or hand over evidences to investigating agencies so that the government can initiate action against...
Expelled Mayawati favourite lands up in Cong
The former minister in the Bahujan Samaj Party government in Uttar Pradesh and once a Brahmin face of the BSP, Nakul Dubey, joined Indian National Congress yesterday in Delhi. Once considered a blue-eyed boy of BSP chief Mayawati, Dubey was expelled from BSP a few days back for...
Telangana CM holds talks with Deve Gowda in Bengaluru
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday called on JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda at his residence here and held discussions on various issues. KCR, as he is popularly known, left for Bengaluru hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hyderabad visit to participate in the 20th year...
